Recently they've put up signs for a couple blocks in every direction of a school reducing the speed limit to 30kph, in addition to already reducing speeds in most residential neighborhoods to 40kph (the standard for decades was 50kph). I have to pass through one to get to my house every day. I turn at a normal speed from a stop sign intersection onto the "school road", then take my foot off the gas entirely. Two blocks later, at the School Zone's end, I check my speedometer: 43kph. Coasting for two blocks.
30kph is ridiculous.
I have some questions for those who put these new regulations in place:
1. Have we seen an upswing in kids getting hit by speeding cars in front of their schools in recent years? (I've not personally heard of any instances in the news, ever, though I don't watch religiously so it's possible I missed such a story.)
2. Presuming a "yes", in those instances, was the driver who hit the kids sober? Was the driver who hit the kids doing under the long-time standard 50kph, or speeding excessively (not honoring even the reasonable 50 limit)?
If the answer to #1 is "no", then there isn't any problem for these ridiculously low new speed limits to resolve.
And if the answer(s) to #2 is "no", than lowering the speed limits does not address the actual problem we had.
I strongly suspect the only real purpose of these new limits is to generate more ticket income for the city.
30kph is ridiculous.
I have some questions for those who put these new regulations in place:
1. Have we seen an upswing in kids getting hit by speeding cars in front of their schools in recent years? (I've not personally heard of any instances in the news, ever, though I don't watch religiously so it's possible I missed such a story.)
2. Presuming a "yes", in those instances, was the driver who hit the kids sober? Was the driver who hit the kids doing under the long-time standard 50kph, or speeding excessively (not honoring even the reasonable 50 limit)?
If the answer to #1 is "no", then there isn't any problem for these ridiculously low new speed limits to resolve.
And if the answer(s) to #2 is "no", than lowering the speed limits does not address the actual problem we had.
I strongly suspect the only real purpose of these new limits is to generate more ticket income for the city.